Learn, And Teach Critical Thinking Skills
It’s not too late to always question what you hear
What never changes and what does
Teachers need to teach critical thinking skills in order for students to learn anything else in life. However, if you were not sufficiently taught how to think critically about all subjects, it’s never too late to pick up, or at least review and renew some habits to think critically.
What does it mean to think critically? It means that although we can and do admire expertise in any field, we understand that learning is as much a revising and updating process as it is learning facts and figures.
We learn to ask why, and how, questions.
Some things are not likely to change their factual basis: gravity is still gravity, the Earth is a sphere, the planet changes, humans use abstract language, and so on. But new information about these facts and new theories about them update our knowledge and keep us creative as well as informed.
Every new bit of knowledge that is not fixed can generate questions.
Thinking critically allows students to remain curious, get creative, learn life skills, grow independent and interdependent, approach learning with problem-solving skills, and to carry those…
